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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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A powerfully moving novel of love, loss, hope, and family from bestselling author James Patterson.
Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker - everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.
This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby...
Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker - everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.
This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby...
3) The street
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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THE STREET tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, a beloved bestseller with more than a million copies in print. Its haunting tale still resonates today.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In an inspirational debut novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Charles "Chick" Benetto, grieving over the death of his mother, uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression and the disintegration of his life, until an encounter with his mother's ghost brings him new awareness and leads him to attempt to put his life back together.
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be prowling around inside his house while he's at school and his mother is at work.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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To escape his offbeat family at Thanksgiving, Andrew West accepts a ride from a band of street performers who get their food and clothing from dumpsters, but as he learns more about these "Freegans" he sees that one cannot outrun the past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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T.S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives surrounded by an assortment of people, including teachers, whores, and radicals.
"Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irving’s breakout novel. The precursor of Irving’s later protest novels, it...
12) Harrison squared
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When his mother disappears at sea, a teenage boy, who is attuned to the supernatural world, attempts, along with an unusual group of allies, to solve the mystery of her accident.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.
As he sits in prison, Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby tells the story of his lineage in great detail -- for the longer his tale lasts, the longer he will live. Moor recounts the rise and fall of...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphic novels inspired by his dream girl and looking out for his mom as she dates every man in the state of California. Then his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she's sending her "two favorite men" on a survivalist camping trip to "bond." Determined to trick Hank into showing his true and#x2014; flawed and#x2014; colors on the trip, Dan and his nerdy germaphobe...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages. The 35th...
16) Confess-O-Rama
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While his mother grieves the death of her fourth husband, Tony vents his feelings to the Confess-O-Rama, never suspecting who's on the other end of the line.
17) The last promise
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Eliana moved to Italy the future was bright with promise. But once she settled into the small village, she found her husband to be a very different man. Over time he distanced himself from her, leaving her to care for their young son.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies three weeks before his high school graduation, Danny goes to Tokyo, where his mother had been going for cancer treatments, to learn about the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with her death.
19) Warrior
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Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Now the power behind Hythria's throne, Marla Wolfblade is determined to control her own life and to protect her young son, Damin, unaware that the High Arrion of the Sorcerers' Collective is plotting to destroy her and the entire Wolfblade dynasty.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
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